Details

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Hymns.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for private recitation and prayer in honor of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Ganeśa. Contains a series of mantras evoking the thousand different names (sahasranāman) associated with the god.

Notes:

Title from sixth verse (f. 2r).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-21, [22], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // kailāsaśireramye suravāsīnaṃ trilocanaṃ // (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 1894 (UP 594).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 594

OCLC:

857174239